Matthew Poole and continuators on Habakkuk 1:1

1 THE burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see .

Vid. Nahum 1. ver. 1. let. a, to which we may here add, as proper to this time and place; That the Prophet seems to speak of the grievous things here intended, as a burden to himself, a trouble he did feel and groan under.

Here we might as others guess at his Country, Parentage and Tribe; but no certainty appears in these, his name may perhaps intimate somewhat, either Actively one that embraceth, or Passively one embraced, and so may refer to God, or to his people, and intimate good to a people, whom God will ere long embrace, or it may speak one that is puzzled with the intricacy of affairs, and therefore expostulateth, as verse 2.3.

Not he that is mentioned in the Apocryphal Book, but a Prophet called, and sent of God.

Not only in the future certainty of it on others, but did also feel in the present trouble and perplexity wherewith it affected him.